Need Help Identifying .22 Rifle from my Childhood

Farmalljon

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My Father handed down his childhood .22 rifle to me when i was about 8 years old. Of course, I only used it under his supervision. The last time I ever saw that rifle was when I was about 15. I'm not sure what happened to it. I think a cousin or other younger shooter in the extended family ended up with it. I'd like to know the model so I can try to find another one. Here is what I know: It was a Harrington & Richardson .22 semiautomatic. It had a brass tubular magazine that was inserted through the butt of the rifle. It had a thick butt plate with a recess in it for the magazine knob. To load, you pushed in on the knob, turned it counter clockwise and pulled the tube almost all the way out, and then loaded the gun through the side of the butt stock. I believe the butt plate and trigger guard were made of plastic but I could be wrong about that. There were two small parallel grooves milled into the receiver to accept a small set of .22 clamp on scope mounts. I saw a gun at a gun show this weekend that I thought was the same model...but it turned out to be a Mossberg. But it was otherwise as described above. Can anyone help me identify what model .22 I had??
 
After looking at some pictures on advice from a guy on another forum, it turns out my childhood 22 was indeed a Mossberg 151 variant. I would have bet a weeks pay that it was an H&R.
 
[I don't think H&R made semi-automatic .22 rifles, did they?]

Actually, they did - the Reising/Leatherneck Model 150, and the Model 700.

AFAIK, none of the H&R's had butstock tube mags (ala Browning Auto-22), which also was feature of some Winchester, Mossberg & Remington Model 16 & Nylon autos.

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